“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven…” (Ecclesiastes 3:1) The Lord gave me a word today about seasons as I walked a trail alongside the river at the base of a mountain. The air was crisp and cool and the leaves had fallen...
I’ve been sick for several weeks with a nasty virus that is rough to shake. Except to go to the doctor, I’ve stayed in my pajamas on the couch. Today, for the first time in two weeks, I got dressed and put on makeup. What a difference it made in the way I looked...
1 John 1:7 "But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from every sin. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all...
“ . . . There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns . . ." (Rev. 17:3b) "The beast and the ten horns you saw will hate the prostitute. They will bring her to ruin and leave her naked; they...
1. Wake Up - Decide to have a good day. "Today is the day the Lord hath made; let us rejoice & be glad in it" Psalms 118:24 2. Dress Up - The best way to dress up is to put on a smile. A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks. "The Lord does not look at...
“For, before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the shoots with pruning knives, and cut down and take away the spreading branches.” (Isa 18:5) I don't know about you, but pruning knives, being cut down,...
The following Scriptural Nugget is the seventh in a mini-series based on John 11. "The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to them, 'Take off the grave clothes and let him go.'" (John 11:44)...
Ephesians 4:22-24: "You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true...
"When the people of the land come before the LORD at the appointed feasts, whoever enters by the north gate to worship is to go out the south gate; and whoever enters by the south gate is to go out the north gate. No one is to return through the gate by which he...
Not everyone called by Jesus to be his disciple chooses to follow him. The account of one who choose not to follow in Luke 18:18-25. The good news sometimes challenges us. On the one hand, we discover that God loves us no matter who we are or what we have done in our...